Personal Statement : ' Intentions '

Free will comes with both the bad and the good, but it is up to each person to do bad or do good. Personal evil exists everywhere from every relationship and to every activity; it can be corrupted and distorted (Ford 70). Evil exists even in our friendships, marriages and families. From the relationships people have and the things that they do, comes with intentions. These intentions can be whole-heartedly good such as love or strictly evil such as betrayal.

In some cases though, that’s not always true. Ender’s Game, a science-fiction book by Orson Scott Card, extremely contradicts it. The main character, Ender is manipulated into many terrible actions, while he has good morales and never intended to do these terrible things. He is portrayed as a good kids and one of the underlying themes convey that intentions mean everything, not the action. This has caused many controversial debates with many different views. For example, John Kessel has written a critical essay, Creating the Innocent Killer, about Ender’s game. Kessel’s essay works on all angles of Ender’s morality. The good

The Merriam-Webster dictionary states that an intention is “a determination to act a certain way” (merriam-webster.com). Each and every human being living in this world has intentions. Every day we set out to act and accomplish things in a certain way. These intentions, however, are merely for the benefit of our own minds. They are little more than the thoughts that one possesses about what the intend to do with their lives.

Intention – Intention represent motivational components of a behavior, that is, the degree of conscious effort that a person will exert in order to perform a behavior (Ajzen, 1991, p.201).

On a similar wavelength, the quotation could also be interpreted as meaning that good intent with bad outcome is more unpleasant, or ?foul?, than malicious intent altogether. This is like comparing the Hindenburg explosion to a kamikaze?s crash. During the 1930?s, the Zeppelin industry served as a peaceful connector between Germany, other western European nations, and the United States. Though Hugo Eckener, the head of the Zeppelin company, persevered in his vision of peaceful association, the rise of Nazi dictatorship threatened the business. The spontaneous combustion of the Hindenburg Zeppelin over New Jersey caused the American public to voice misgivings about Germany?s intentions for intercontinental transportation and amplified tensions between European nations, and the zeppelin business was made to come to an end. Overall, the purpose of Zeppelins was to establish peace, and it was a fluke of chemistry that malformed their intentions into something detrimental. In contrast, a kamikaze pilot is one who crashes his or her plane in order to destruct. By this

There is not much disagreement over whether intention plays a role in assigning moral blame. After all, someone who intends to cause suffering is clearly different

There are two types of evil mentioned, moral evil and natural evil. Moral evil is defined as actions of a person or group, such as theft, murder, manipulation, etc. Natural evil is defined as actions, which are uncontrollable and caused by nature, such as diseases, earthquakes, and hurricanes. Further clarification must be made to define an evil act. For example, if someone were becoming intimate with many people, they could receive a disease. If they were to unknowingly pass the disease along, the human would be committing the action. If they did not know they were committing an evil, does it still count as an evil? I think it is crucial to maintain

Determination is a driving force. For me, the determination to succeed has been my greatest ambition. I have strove to push my limits; to surpass even own my expectations. My determination to succeed has been the leading factor in everything I do for the larger portion of my life. I was determined to pass high school with fantastic grades. I was determined to ace every test and every paper. I was determined to get accepted into Arkansas State University. I am determined to become a doctor and help others. I am determined to be something bigger; to have something much greater.

If an individual is striving to be good, they are undermining the essence of good, and they are not one

A good action done for the wrong reasons is not unqualifiedly good according to Immanuel Kant. This idea can be expanded further by Kant when actions involve people. According to J. David Velleman in “A Brief Introduction to Kantian Ethics*” all people should be treated with respect, such that they should always be viewed as an end, and not merely a means to an end. So any action, even good actions, that are using a person as a means to an end, without that person becoming an end themselves, is immoral. I agree with this viewpoint, because it falls in line with my own moral beliefs that all people should be treated with respect, and that

Scanlon explores the ethical significance of the intentions and motives with which people act. According to Scanlon, these intentions and motives do not have any direct bearing on the permissibility of the act. Thus, Scanlon claims that the traditional Doctrine of Double Effect is mistaken. However, the way in which someone is motivated to act has

In Kant’s mind we all have good intentions when doing something, and for such reason, we can’t be accounted guilty for doing something wrong if the original intention was to do something good. Basically, he implied

So, what is evil?  Is it Hitler's near annihilation of the Jewish people during World War II or the senseless massacre at Ti'enneman Square on mainland China?  Again we turn to Webster's dictionary, which states evil as causing distress or harm, a source of sorrow, and the fact of suffering, misfortune, and wrongdoing. (Merriam-Webster)   Evil would be any intention to cause an undesirable effect upon one's self or on another person.  So by saying that the intentions of a person are not to cause good we automatically assume that they are out to cause evil.

A personal mission statement is a philosophy or creed that one plans to follow in daily life. It is usually designed with positivity, purpose, and with personal goals for every aspect of life such as career, finances, etc. It also focuses on personality traits that one would like to possess and the accomplishments that one wants to achieve, both short-term and long term. It also houses the individuality of the person writing it. Every person writing a personal mission statement is will produce a different statement. This is primarily because people value different things, characteristics and have different goals. The purpose of this paper is to explore my mission statement (Covey, 2013, pp.113).

Morality is an important component of a human being because it helps shape the ethical foundation that every human being has. Whether to be good, evil, honest, or deceitful are just some of the traits morality helps us develop. Thus, it is evident that morality is a crucial component of a human being. However, what ultimately drives moral action? This question is debated and investigated against many philosophers, a few of them being Thomas Hobbes, Frans de Waal, and David Hume.